[PATCH] include/uapi/linux/lsm.h, Documentation/userspace-api/lsm.rst: introduce LSM_ATTR_UNSHARE

Stephen Smalley stephen.smalley.work at gmail.com
Fri Oct 3 13:20:01 UTC 2025


This defines a new LSM_ATTR_UNSHARE attribute for the
lsm_set_self_attr(2) and lsm_get_self_attr(2) system calls. When
passed to lsm_set_self_attr(2), the LSM-specific namespace for the
specified LSM id is immediately unshared in a similar manner to the
unshare(2) system call for other Linux namespaces. When passed to
lsm_get_self_attr(2), the return value is a boolean (0 or 1) that
indicates whether the LSM-specific namespace for the specified LSM id
has been unshared and not yet fully initialized (e.g. no policy yet
loaded).

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/selinux/20250918135904.9997-2-stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/selinux/CAHC9VhRGMmhxbajwQNfGFy+ZFF1uN=UEBjqQZQ4UBy7yds3eVQ@mail.gmail.com/

Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <stephen.smalley.work at gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/userspace-api/lsm.rst | 9 +++++++++
 include/uapi/linux/lsm.h            | 1 +
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/lsm.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/lsm.rst
index a76da373841b..93638c1e275a 100644
--- a/Documentation/userspace-api/lsm.rst
+++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/lsm.rst
@@ -48,6 +48,15 @@ creating socket objects.
 The proc filesystem provides this value in ``/proc/self/attr/sockcreate``.
 This is supported by the SELinux security module.
 
+``LSM_ATTR_UNSHARE`` is used to unshare the LSM-specific namespace for
+the process. When passed to ``lsm_set_self_attr(2)``, the LSM-specific
+namespace for the specified LSM id is immediately unshared
+in a similar manner to the ``unshare(2)`` system call for other
+Linux namespaces. When passed to ``lsm_get_self_attr(2)``,
+the return value is a boolean (0 or 1) that indicates whether the
+LSM-specific namespace for the specified LSM id has been unshared
+and not yet fully initialized (e.g. no policy yet loaded).
+
 Kernel interface
 ================
 
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/lsm.h b/include/uapi/linux/lsm.h
index 938593dfd5da..fb1b4a8aa639 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/lsm.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/lsm.h
@@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ struct lsm_ctx {
 #define LSM_ATTR_KEYCREATE	103
 #define LSM_ATTR_PREV		104
 #define LSM_ATTR_SOCKCREATE	105
+#define LSM_ATTR_UNSHARE	106
 
 /*
  * LSM_FLAG_XXX definitions identify special handling instructions
-- 
2.51.0




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